In response to the numerous complaints from candidates for public employment in Lorca, the Socialist Group wants to promote a battery of measures to ensure that the selection processes are objective and prioritize the principles of equality, merit and ability to dispel any doubt or suspicion between the citizenship
The councilor of the PSOE in the city of Lorca, Antonio Navarro has announced that in the next plenary session they will present a motion to reform the mechanisms of the selection of public staff, to promote "greater transparency" and to introduce "more objective criteria" With which "to dispel any doubts that the citizenry assures - can have in terms of equal opportunities in access to public employment of this City."
They hope, therefore, that the PP government team "if they have nothing to hide, do not have problem in approving these initiatives of the PSOE with which to continue advancing in transparency and equality".
Navarro says it is "obvious" that transparency in the development of staff selection processes in the City of Lorca "leaves much to be desired."
Therefore, he insists that these processes "must not only be clean, but also have to look like".
The mayor expects the council to remain sensitive to the need to "advance in transparency".
He remembers that thanks to the "insistent denunciations" of the Socialist Group "far begins to remain already the times in which the City Council of Lorca opened processes of selection of personnel in full Holy Week or at Christmas".
Navarro says that although "there is still a long way to go", the consistory begins to contest these jobs at "most reasonable" dates and deadlines.
Without wishing to question the "cleanliness" of these processes, Antonio Navarro has referred to the "numerous complaints" that have received from aspirants, "continued suspicion" in the development of the latest selection processes carried out.
That is why the Socialist Group wants to promote its proposals so that these selection processes are "objective" and prioritize the principles of equality, merit and capacity.
To do this, Navarro insists on the need to suppress the "Personal Interview" test, because he says that he makes these processes "subjective at the interviewer's discretion".
For this reason, they will ask that the Personal Interview test be an "exceptional means", to be applied only in calls that are considered "expressly" and "where there is no other way to objectively evaluate merit and ability" .
In fact, they propose that in any case the criteria of evaluation of the interview "be explicit in the bases of the call".
Likewise, they will propose that the personnel selection processes for both calls made by the City of Lorca, municipal capital companies and the selection of candidates for Joint Programs of Training and Employment are governed "always" by the "Transparency parameters" and others that are considered appropriate "to avoid the feeling of opacity and lack of clarity".
They will also request that the choice of topics during the selection process be made by drawing "just before" the examinations, and for greater transparency, that this drawing be public, with the candidates "as eyewitnesses".
Likewise, and in terms of the test agenda, the PSOE will ask for a "specific agenda for each event" and that it, he insists, "be made public on the occasion of the call."
As for the announcement the processes, they ask for "maximum publicity" for all the oppositions and calls "through the local means of communication".
Source: PSOE Lorca